Bill Dixon Quotes

Originality is undetected plagiarism.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

I don't want nobody to ever say, 'I coulda done that beat' or 'I know where you got that from.'

The last thing you want to do as a creator is take something of someone else's when you love him.

Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers.

I don't read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something.

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

When it comes to other people's writing, my older influences are more powerful than more recent ones, partially because I'm now more worried that I'll suddenly accidentally steal something from another writer.

You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

Never steal jokes.

Student cartoonists as well as professionals should always be careful that they're not doing a cartoon that already has been done.

There's a lot of thievery involved in writing. You're breaking into other people's spaces and other people's stories.

I do hear snippets on the radio. I do hear a little bit of me, sometimes great chunks of me. But I have to take that as a compliment; there's no way you can get sour grapes about that. But if somebody starts taking your whole new thing lock, stock, and barrel, and do their own version of it before you do it, that's not on.

I rather want my things to be copied than me copying. I would feel ashamed!

If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

When you snatch little pieces of other people's lives and try to palm them off as your own, that's more disgusting than anything. Robin Williams is a huge thief. Denis Leary is a huge thief. His whole stand-up career is based on Bill Hicks, a brilliant guy who died years ago.

No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism.

Well, you might as well imitate your own program because if you don't, someone else will.

Too afraid of plagiarising someone, so I stopped reading fiction in 1981.

I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.'

Blake is damned good to steal from.

Everyone steals from something or someone.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.